Name: Cauliflower Cheese
Yield: Serves 4 as a side dish
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: ¼ cup (30 g) grated sharp Cheddar cheese, for topping; ½ cup (60 g) grated sharp Cheddar cheese; 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, plus more for the baking dish; 1 large head or 2 small heads cauliflower, cut or broken into bite-size florets; ¼ cup (60 ml) water; 2 tablespoons flour; ¼ cup (30 g) flour; 2 tablespoons butter; pinch of cayenne pepper; 1 cup (240 ml) milk, heated; Black pepper; Ground nutmeg

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Serves
4
as a side dish

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook

By Annie Gray

Published 2019

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The recipe comes from Everyday Cookery Beeton’s Book of Household Management, first published in 1861 but in print continuously ever since. The original book, a mixture of strong, empowering language and utterly garbled recipes (Isabella plagiarized freely to compile her volume), dealt not only with cookery but also the running of a household. Aimed at the rapidly increasing urban middle classes, it set out to help women who had not necessarily been brought up with servants but who n

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